Turn off propane at gas stations - DO YOU?
Hi. I have read that you should close the propane tank when entering the gas station but some people have said they do not. We will have ours on for the fridge. We are driving our first long trip (7...
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bid_time wrote:ryanw821 wrote:A "little bit of gasoline" and "30-feet away" WOW!! That sounds like a stretch.Jay Pat wrote:
I don't. My propane burning gizmos are about 15-20 feet behind my pickup and out from under the canopy.
Pat
I have watched someone get some pretty bad burns walking up to a brush pile that he had soaked in a little bit of gasoline, his propane torch set the whole works off from about 30 feet away as he was walking up to it, gasoline vapors can spread quickly.
Fill up with an ignition source on and this can be you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f4lPzxSm5A
EDIT: I should note ^^^ this idiot ^^^ got off lucky, it could have been much worse
When I say a little bit of gasoline I may be stretching it for dramatic effect, but a heck of a lot less than someone would put into a vehicle, he used about half of a 5gal can, so in the ballpark of 2-3 gallons of gasoline.
And everyone is right its not the LP itself that is the cause of the fires, its the igniters, which is why I hit my battery kill switch, then igniters cant spark.
